This preview has been provided by the North Carolina Symphony.
The North Carolina Symphony joins with the Durham Performing Arts Center to present the best of Broadway in a one-night-only revue. The orchestra will play music from new and beloved works including Grease and Gypsy. Guest stars from the New York stage will sing numbers from hits including Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award winner Finding Neverland and the Tony®-winning revival of The King & I. North Carolina Symphony Associate Conductor David Glover will conduct.
DPAC and the Symphony have brought six guest singers to the stage for this concert: Nick Cartell, Daniella Dalli, Amy Decker, Alex Dreier, Celia Hottenstein, and Lisa Jolley.
Nick Cartell has appeared in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera. His Broadway credits include understudying Jesus, Judas and Annas for Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Scandalous. Off-Broadway, he was on the Original Cast Recording of Frankenstein; he has also appeared in numerous regional productions.
Daniella Dalli is currently on national tour with The Sound of Music directed by Jack O’Brien. Regional: Man of La Mancha (Aldonza), Les Misérables (Fantine), I Do! I Do! (Agnes), Show Boat (Julie LaVerne), Hello, Dolly! (Irene Molloy), Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), Allegro (Marjorie Taylor), A Little Night Music (Mrs. Anderssen), Sense & Sensibility the Musical (Swing).
Amy Decker has toured with The Phantom of the Opera, The Will Rogers Follies (Betty Blake, opposite Larry Gatlin), Fame! The Musical (Korean Tour). NYC: Ophelia (Ophelia), and Songs for a New World (Woman #1). Regional productions include The Sound of Music (Maria), The Game (Madame de Tourvel), White Christmas (Betty), The King and I (Anna), Barnum (Jenny Lind), Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), Oklahoma! (Laurey), Steel Magnolias (Shelby), Guys and Dolls (Sarah), and Hello Dolly (Irene). Bachelors of Music, the Manhattan School of Music.
Alex Drier has played on Broadway in Finding Neverland, Assembled Parties, and Billy Elliott. His Off-Broadway and regional credits include Finding Neverland, Appropriate, Dinner with Friends, Lies My Father Told Me, New York City Ballet, and Paper Mill. On TV, he has appeared in the Tony Awards broadcast, as well as on Unforgettable, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, and Royal Pains.
Celia Hottenstein appeared in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera. Her regional theater credits include Princesses at Goodspeed Opera House and Nine at SpeakEasy Stage Company. She holds a BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory.
Lisa Jolley performed in the Broadway company of Hairspray, as well as other productions including The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Paper Mill Playhouse), Nunsense, Anything Goes, The King and I, The Music Man and Brigadoon. She has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony in holiday concerts and at Summerfest; she has also been seen locally in Spamalot (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); Next to Normal (Deep Dish); Les Misérables, Hairspray and The Producers (North Carolina Theatre); Souvenir, Sylvia, The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Oh, What a Night No.’s 1 and 3 (Theatre Raleigh), as well as Into the Woods (PlayMakers Repertory Company). TV roles include Banshee, Law and Order: SVU, Hope and Faith, Sex and the City and As the World Turns. She has performed improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade and other groups; her solo musical improv show, Jolley on the Spot, has had critical acclaim in NYC, LA and at the Chicago Improv Festival. She also teaches improv for the North Carolina Theatre Conservatory.
Sponsors and Partners
Summerfest 2016 is presented by UNC REX Healthcare, co-sponsored by First Citizens Bank, and hosted by the Town of Cary. Summerfest Instrument Zoos are sponsored by MetLife Foundation. Media sponsors are Cary Magazine, FOX 50, WRAL.com/TV5, and MIX 101.5/WRAL-FM.
This concert is sponsored by Baird Private Wealth Management.
This year’s UNC REX Healthcare Summerfest concerts are also included in VisitRaleigh.com’s “Artify: The Arts in Parks, a convergence of arts organizations celebrating 100 years of parks, the art that happens in them and the art inspired by them.”
The 11-concert UNC REX Healthcare Summerfest Series offers music lovers a perfect family outing, and once again, concertgoers who display the biggest and boldest culinary skills can win prizes. The Whole Foods Market of Cary Picnic of the Week contest returns for the seventh year. Throughout the summer, groups of concertgoers selected as the most impressive picnickers of that weekend’s concert will receive a $100 gift basket from Whole Foods Market of Cary. Two honorable mentions in the form of $25 gift cards will also be awarded. Select UNC REX Healthcare Summerfest Series concerts also feature other pre-concert activities, including Summerfest Instrument Zoos sponsored by MetLife Foundation for kids of all ages.
Tickets and Subscriptions
Booth Amphitheatre is located at 8003 Regency Parkway in Cary, N.C.
General admission lawn seating to “Broadway at the Booth” is $28 in advance, $30 at the door. Covered table seating is also available for $30 in advance, $33 at the door. Children 12 and under are admitted free for lawn seating at all UNC REX Healthcare Summerfest Series concerts.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony gives more than 200 performances annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 66 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, and Associate Conductor David Glover.
Based in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington — as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year — and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
About DPAC
Since its opening in 2008, DPAC has become the center for live entertainment in North Carolina. Recognized for its contemporary design, DPAC features 2,700 seats, intimate sightlines and state-of-the art sound and video. Listed five times in the top 5 in Pollstar magazine’s annual worldwide theater attendance rankings, DPAC is currently the #4 ranked theater in the U.S.
With a mission of presenting one-of a-kind live entertainment events, DPAC truly has “something for everyone”, hosting over 200 performances a year including spectacular touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the heralded American Dance Festival. Owned by the City of Durham and operated under the direction of Nederlander and Professional Facilities Management (PFM), DPAC has been listed four consecutive years as the #1 performing arts organization in the region by the Triangle Business Journal.
About the Town of Cary and Koka Booth Amphitheatre
The Town of Cary focuses every day on enriching the lives of its citizens by creating an exceptional environment and providing exemplary services that enable the community to thrive and prosper. Cary has more than 20 public parks, 20 miles of trails, cultural arts programs and facilities as well as concerts and other special events throughout the year.
Koka Booth Amphitheatre, the Town’s state-of-the-art performance center venue nestled in the trees by Symphony Lake, is the summer home for the North Carolina Symphony. Celebrating its 16th season, in addition to Summerfest, patrons can look forward to another exciting season of national touring acts, outdoor movie series, weekly jazz, country and bluegrass concerts and its many cultural, food and beverage fun festivals.
Concert/Event Listings:
North Carolina Symphony and DPAC Present
“Broadway at the Booth”
Friday, June 24, 2016, 7:30 p.m. (Gates open at 5:30 p.m.)
Booth Amphitheatre, Cary
David Glover, conductor
Nick Cartell, vocalist
Daniella Dalli, vocalist
Amy Decker, vocalist
Alex Dreier, vocalist
Celia Hottenstein, vocalist
Lisa Jolley, vocalist
ARR. CALVIN CUSTER: A Salute to the Big Apple
Theme from New York, New York
Forty-Second Street
Lullaby of Broadway
FRANK LOESSER / ARR. DON WALKER, MITCH LEIGH”
“Somebody Somewhere” from Most Happy Fella
“The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha
Lisa Jolley, vocalist
FREDERICK LOEWE / ARR. ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Selections from Gigi
RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
“Hello Young Lovers” from The King and I
Amy Decker, vocalist
“Something Wonderful” from The King and I
Daniella Dalli, vocalist
JERRY BOCK / SHELTON RAPLEY
Selections from Fiddler on the Roof
JERRY BOCK & SHELDON HARNICK
“Vanilla Ice Cream” from She Loves Me
JIM WISE & ROBIN MILLER
“Raining in My Heart” from Dames at Sea
JULE STYNE & STEPHEN SONDHEIM
“Some People” from Gypsy
Lisa Jolley, vocalist
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / ARR. CALVIN CUSTER
Selections from The Phantom of the Opera
ELIOT KENNEDY & GARY BARLOW / ARR. AARON GRAD
“When Your Feet Don’t Touch the Ground” from Finding Neverland
Nick Cartell and Alex Dreier, vocalists
“All That Matters” from Finding Neverland
Celia Hottenstein, vocalist
ARR. CALVIN CUSTER: Selections from Grease
